Company A incurs less overhead than Company B.

[Winwin2011]

Company A incurs less overhead than Company B.

Is the above sentence natural?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Companies can incur losses, but I don't think incur overhead works.

 

[emsr2d2]

I agree.

Company A has fewer overheads than Company B. (Use "fewer" if you're using a countable noun.)
Company A's overheads are lower than Company B's. (Here, "overheads" suggests the actual amount of money involved.)
Company A has lower overheads than Company B.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I have never run across "overheads" in AmE. We normally use it as an uncountable noun.

 

[MikeNewYork]

We don't pluralize it and it is considered singular. What does uncountable mean to you?

 

[Matthew Wai]

Company A incurs less overhead than Company B.

Is it correct to use 'pays' instead of 'incurs'?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I don't think incur overhead works.

Does it work below?
'The company will incur more overhead if it expands.'

 

[lotus888]

Company A incurs less overhead than Company B.

Is the above sentence natural?

We normally use it in the past tense.

Company A incurred less overhead than Company B.

In the present tense, we say:

Company A has less overhead than Company B.



--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

To post 8: I used singular in the context of subject-verb agreement.

We have high overhead. Our overhead is high.

 

[emsr2d2]

We use the plural because lots of things class as overheads - staff wages, electricity bill, supplier costs, taxes, rates etc.

 

[MikeNewYork]

We use the singular because overhead refers to the sum total of those expenses.

 

[emsr2d2]

This is a definite BrE vs AmE difference then. "An overhead" is one cost incurred/paid by a company. Those costs put together make "overheads".

 

[MikeNewYork]

Yes, that is a difference.